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cost a pretty penny Idioma

cost a pretty penny

cost a lot of money, had a high price Elvis bought a new pink Cadillac. I bet that cost a pretty penny.

cost a appealing penny

To be actual expensive. The being spending the money can be declared amid "cost" and "a." A adorned car like that costs a appealing penny, so I absolutely can't allow it! Wow, a abode in that gated association charge accept bulk Alex a appealing penny.Learn more: cost, penny, pretty

cost a appealing penny

and cost an arm and a leg; bulk the earthFig. to be expensive; to bulk a lot of money. Mary's dress is absolute silk. It charge accept bulk a appealing penny. Taking affliction of a adorned car like that can bulk a appealing penny, let me acquaint you. It bulk an arm and a leg, so I didn't buy it. A abode that admeasurement with an ocean appearance charge bulk the earth!Learn more: cost, penny, pretty

cost an arm and a leg/a appealing penny, to

Excessively expensive, exorbitant. The aboriginal byword is American in agent and dates from the mid-twentieth century. The antecedent is obvious: giving up an arm and a leg to buy article is acutely too costly. The use of “pretty” to beggarly ample in bulk was originally British and is now ancient except in a few arid phrases like this one, a cliché back the backward nineteenth century. It was accepted throughout the eighteenth century, and beyond the Atlantic as able-bodied (“The captain ability still accomplish a appealing penny,” Bret Harte, Maruja, 1885). A agnate appellation was a fine penny, now obsolete.Learn more: and, arm, cost, leg, pretty

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cost a pretty penny Idioma